Driver blames road for being “too dark and not well lit” after smashing into a trailer truck in Pattaya

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By Goong Nang(GN)

 

Pattaya, Banglamung, Chonburi – A 38-year-old pickup truck driver has sustained moderate injuries after he crashed his vehicle into a trailer truck on Friday night over the past weekend.

 

The driver blamed the road for being too dark and not having enough lights for the accident and not his driving skills.

 

Emergency responders were notified of the accident on Friday (August 6th) on Number 331 Road in Huayyai. They, Pattaya law enforcement, and The Pattaya News arrived at the scene to find that the pickup truck had crashed into the back of the larger vehicle. The trailer truck driver, Mr. Kittipan Paripitakchoo, 36, who was not injured, was at the scene waiting for police.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/08/08/driver-blames-road-for-being-too-dark-and-not-well-lit-after-smashing-into-a-trailer-truck-in-pattaya/

 

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[Captain Monday]

He broke the basic rule of safe driving. 100 percent fault.

[Thujone]

Maybe there should be an addition to the film that must be watched when getting or renewing a driving license.

When on a dark/badly-lit road, don't drive hell-for-leather and hope for the best.

[smedly]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The driver blamed the road for being too dark and not having enough lights for the accident and not his driving skills.

what skills ? you ran into a parked truck you idiot

 

surfing facebook and driving too fast would be my guess and throw in possibly intoxicated 

[HampiK]

Maybe too dark film at the front window? I see many car who have in front that dark you can not look inside at all. So this will be problematic in nighttime, because this mean more difficult to look out! 
Maybe not the street are too dark, but the light not enough to compensate the dark film.

[jacko45k]

Always somebody else's fault.... don't you have headlights?

And did the trailer have tail-lights?

[Gottfrid]

He most have been training hard on such fantastic excuses.

[thaibeachlovers]

Most Thai roads I drove on were dark and not well lit. I wonder which roads he drove on before that one?

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

And did the trailer have tail-lights?

Entirely possible in LOS that it didn't, or they were not illuminated.

 

Whatever, it's the drivers responsibility to drive safely.

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Whatever, it's the drivers responsibility to drive safely

And as is often overlooked, to park safely. 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The driver blamed the road for being too dark and not having enough lights for the accident and not his driving skills.

Of course... 

[Road Warrior]

maybe he is RIGHT !!!  but then with intelligence you slow down to cope with road condition !!!  yes ????  not thai drivers !!!

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

the road for being too dark and not having enough lights

He must have become aware of that immediately after the accident... there is still hope for him to evolve.

[sniggie]

Everyone knows that turning the lights on makes the vehicle go slower. That's why boys remove the taillight from their motorcycles apprarently.

[Cake Monster]

" too dark and not well lit "

Thai talk for " I was having a little sleep so my eyes were closed "

[Aussieroaming]

He must have been rushing home in a blind panic to beat the 9pm curfew

[Bangkok Barry]

4 hours ago, Thujone said:

Maybe there should be an addition to the film that must be watched when getting or renewing a driving license.

When on a dark/badly-lit road, don't drive hell-for-leather and hope for the best.

No point. No-one watches it anyway. They're all looking at their phones instead. Now, if they tested people on what they had just (not) watched instead of just showing it......

[Sydebolle]

"The driver blamed the road for being too dark and not having enough lights for the accident and not his driving skills."

 

I - for one - could like to see only once a Thai to admit a mistake. Neither darkness nor insufficient light caused the accident, it was him, his missing driving skills or attention or his intoxication or a combination of any. Same with anything else which goes wrong. 

And yes, if it can go wrong then Somchai ensures - without fail - that it not only certainly goes wrong but that it is anybody else's but his fault. Welcome to grown-up Thailand in the 21st century! 

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[Bangkok Barry]

4 hours ago, HampiK said:

Maybe too dark film at the front window? I see many car who have in front that dark you can not look inside at all. So this will be problematic in nighttime, because this mean more difficult to look out! 
Maybe not the street are too dark, but the light not enough to compensate the dark film.

Dark film is illegal in Thailand for obvious reasons which you describe, But, well, you know...... Why pick that law to enforce when no others are.

[Almer]

4 hours ago, HampiK said:

Maybe too dark film at the front window? I see many car who have in front that dark you can not look inside at all. So this will be problematic in nighttime, because this mean more difficult to look out! 
Maybe not the street are too dark, but the light not enough to compensate the dark film.

I had the American film( dont recall  the name) works like specs, dark in the day but ok  at night, it was about 3x the price.

[Bangkok Barry]

14 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

"The driver blamed the road for being too dark and not having enough lights for the accident and not his driving skills."

 

I - for one - could like to see only once a Thai to admit a mistake. Neither darkness nor insufficient light caused the accident, it was him, his missing driving skills or attention or his intoxication or a combination of any. Same with anything else which goes wrong. 

And yes, if it can go wrong then Somchai ensures - without fail - that it not only certainly goes wrong but that it is anybody else's but his fault. Welcome to grown-up Thailand in the 21st century! 

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I'm not sure, but I don't think in my 25+ years here I've ever read of a Thai admitting they were wrong. My favourite tale from a number of years ago involved someone trying to buy a regional bus ticket for a journey he had made many times before. The girl selling insisted there was no bus at that time, so he went to fetch someone from the information desk who told her that yes, there was a bus at that time. Still she refused to sell him the ticket as she'd lose face, and he was forced to take a later bus.

In our society, we learn by the time we are about 6-7 years old to admit we are wrong rather than insist that Tuesday is Wednesday no matter what, but Thailand? No.

 

But it's not only a Thai thing. I was in Hong Kong and ordered some chicken wings in an Aussie restaurant. And waited. And waited. Eventually I called a waiter over and asked where my dinner was, he went to investigate, and found my waitress hiding in the kitchen as they had none left and she would have lost face by telling me. Of course, she - like the girl at the bus station - lost even more face by acting that way, but they never seem to realise that.

[Almer]

3 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

No point. No-one watches it anyway. They're all looking at their phones instead. Now, if they tested people on what they had just (not) watched instead of just showing it......

When i went for  my initial 2 year the thai man next to me was asleep all the way through and i didn't understand much as all in Thai,  on my renewal to 6 year i only did the traffic light and depth perception, the young girl before me could not do the footbrake test her dad showed her a couple of times but she still couldn't get the foot on the pedal in time, but she sat with me waiting her licence, i have been rear  ended twice in the past year both in Bangers and before seeing the driver wonder if its going to be the young girl with her dad shouting at her.

[Almer]

4 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

I'm not sure, but I don't think in my 25+ years here I've ever read of a Thai admitting they were wrong. My favourite tale from a number of years ago involved someone trying to buy a regional bus ticket for a journey he had made many times before. The girl selling insisted there was no bus at that time, so he went to fetch someone from the information desk who told her that yes, there was a bus at that time. Still she refused to sell him the ticket as she'd lose face, and he was forced to take a later bus.

Yes that a Thai for sure

[worgeordie]

It's always someone else's fault , 

Driving home one dark moonless night, in the distance

i could just make out a small red light swaying back 

and forth, I thought a drunk on a bike, must be careful,

so slowed down as I got nearer.... it turned out to be an

Elephant been walked along the road,with a little red

light attached to its tail.  parked trailer truck to Elephant

you have to drive with caution in the dark.....????

 

regards Worgeordie

 

 

[Bangkok Barry]

5 minutes ago, Almer said:

Yes that a Thai for sure

I've now edited, and it isn't only Thais ????

 

[Banana7]

If I were cop, I would charge both drivers.

The parked truck doesn't enough clean reflectors on the rear. There maybe a law that says commercial  parked on a highway must put a reflective triangle behind their vehicle x meters.

 

The guy that crashed into the parked truck, he was going to fast, over drove his headlights, in other words, couldn't stop within the lighting distance of his headlights.

 

[2long]

Reduced visibility = reduce your speed.

It's not that difficult, is it? ????????????

[Nickelbeer]

I agree with the DRIVER. He should be compensated for the negligence of the local Thai government.

[Broken Record]

1 hour ago, Sydebolle said:

"The driver blamed the road for being too dark and not having enough lights for the accident and not his driving skills."

 

I - for one - could like to see only once a Thai to admit a mistake. Neither darkness nor insufficient light caused the accident, it was him, his missing driving skills or attention or his intoxication or a combination of any. Same with anything else which goes wrong. 

And yes, if it can go wrong then Somchai ensures - without fail - that it not only certainly goes wrong but that it is anybody else's but his fault. Welcome to grown-up Thailand in the 21st century! 

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Have you ever been here?

[mikebell]

5 hours ago, HampiK said:

Maybe too dark film at the front window? I see many car who have in front that dark you can not look inside at all. So this will be problematic in nighttime, because this mean more difficult to look out! 
Maybe not the street are too dark, but the light not enough to compensate the dark film.

I thought this type of film had been made illegal?  With few farangs to prey on, it could be a nice little earner for Pattaya Plod.